Hi guys
I have a small fizz boat that I am selling and like all things being sold, it chooses now to have a breakage, namely the windlass.
It is a small vertical windlass, no names on it other than the electric motor which is a Lucas which leads me to Lewmar (British?) but I have scoured the net and find nothing that looks exactly like this one (probably because it's 18 years old).
When powered on, the winch sounds like it's running fine but the main spindle doesn't turn. So electrically it's OK. I have stripped the rope drum and the chain gypsy off and there is a friction cone on the bottom of the shaft. There are no signs that this cone is keyed or threaded onto the spindle, no circlips, nothing obvious.
Here's my problem: The gearbox (which is where I believe the problem is) is obviously inside the boat, there is a deck plate on the deck, these two bits sandwich the deck with four bolts on deck but only three nuts down below. The fourth bolt must be screwed into the gearbox housing. BUT the cone that I refer to above does not pass through the deck plate (hole too small). I can turn the shaft/cone with a vice-grip with some difficulty but I can't lift it upwards.
It seems that I must get this shaft off before I can remove the gearbox but I can't figure out how. The drawings that I have found on the Lewmar site show a circlip and/or a keyway on the bottom of the shaft depending on the model.
Does anyone have any ideas on how this lot fits together or more to the point, how it comes apart? Or maybe someone knows of a website where I can get some useful info
Thanks
Andre
I have a small fizz boat that I am selling and like all things being sold, it chooses now to have a breakage, namely the windlass.
It is a small vertical windlass, no names on it other than the electric motor which is a Lucas which leads me to Lewmar (British?) but I have scoured the net and find nothing that looks exactly like this one (probably because it's 18 years old).
When powered on, the winch sounds like it's running fine but the main spindle doesn't turn. So electrically it's OK. I have stripped the rope drum and the chain gypsy off and there is a friction cone on the bottom of the shaft. There are no signs that this cone is keyed or threaded onto the spindle, no circlips, nothing obvious.
Here's my problem: The gearbox (which is where I believe the problem is) is obviously inside the boat, there is a deck plate on the deck, these two bits sandwich the deck with four bolts on deck but only three nuts down below. The fourth bolt must be screwed into the gearbox housing. BUT the cone that I refer to above does not pass through the deck plate (hole too small). I can turn the shaft/cone with a vice-grip with some difficulty but I can't lift it upwards.
It seems that I must get this shaft off before I can remove the gearbox but I can't figure out how. The drawings that I have found on the Lewmar site show a circlip and/or a keyway on the bottom of the shaft depending on the model.
Does anyone have any ideas on how this lot fits together or more to the point, how it comes apart? Or maybe someone knows of a website where I can get some useful info
Thanks
Andre